Eduardo Villanueva

Eduardo Villanueva (1683-1750??) was a Pirate lord who was designated to be the Lord of the Adriatic Sea. Leading the Spanish Treasure Fleet Pirates, he smuggled gold from Morocco to Turkey and Mexico to Spain.

Biography
Villanueva was from Spanish Mexico in New Spain and became a pirate out of desperation for money. He became the leader of the Spanish Treasure Fleet Pirates and plundered Spanish, Venetian, Genoese, and French merchant ships in the Mediterranean Sea, while also fighting against the Barbary States and Captaine Chevalle's fleets. Many of his fleets carrying gold from Mexico to Spain were attacked by Ammand the Corsair and Chevalle's ships. He had a rivalry with the Frenchman and the Turk, and was also an enemy of the British, as Great Britain had posted a 2,000 guinea bounty on him. He was an ally of Mistress Ching, Lord of the South China Sea, and he was sent to duel Jack Sparrow by her in Tortuga in 1745 when Sparrow tried to get them to attend a conclave in Shipwreck Island, in the Pacific Ocean. Villanueva was defeated in the duel, and agreed to hear Sparrow out in the conclave. All of the Pirate Lords at the meeting agreed to join him in raising ships to fight the British East India Company armada led by Cutler Beckett. His ship Centurion fought in the battle.

It is not known when Villanueva died. By 1745 he was already in semi-retirement, and he died in the 1750s, give or take.